Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G came to us with Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz central processor inside and Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI came to us with Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz CPU inside.
We've found 17" monitor size on Vaio VGN-AR190G quite better than 15.4" at TravelMate 8204WLMI.
Graphic professionals might find Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G model with its 1920x1200 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
If you want to run many programs at once 2GB of RAM on this Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is better than Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G with 1GB.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G and Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
There are 1 free RAM slots on Vaio VGN-AR190G rather than 0.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is something lighter with its weight of 3.6kg, comparing to 3.81kg at other laptop.
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is Nvidia Go 7600GT and in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600.
Each laptop have 256MB of video memory built on its video card.
More hard disk space were at Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G (200GB is contast to 120GB).
We do not have preference on their hard drive speed - 5400 rpm have both.
If you have some bluetooth devices if you buy Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI you will need external bluetooth which is not excellent idea.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI you won't be enabled to communicate with them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI.
Internal modem is available in both which you will need it at some location without proper Internet connection.
Note that Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
Only Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI have cardreader inside.
They don't have DVI for new LCD monitors.
Both have TV output.
Advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is existance of TV input.
Web camera is built in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G (the another hasn't it) and it is useful for video conferencing.
Operating system on Vaio VGN-AR190G is XP Media Center and on TravelMate 8204WLMI is XP Pro.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G has special software pack : Works 8.5.
Special adventages of these notebooks are : two hard disks of 120 in RAID for Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G and for Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI.
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